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I was a town child, it is true...

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

Being gifted needs courage....

Being gifted needs courage.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

I was not afraid of what I did...

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

Poor is the power of the lead ...

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

I was always hearing that I wa...

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

I was not given to looking at ...

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

It gradually dawned upon me th...

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

My father, though, could run v...

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

A love for humanity came over ...

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

The person upon whom the schoo...

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

I encountered among my comrade...

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

The appalling thing about war ...

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

The stream of time sweeps away...

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

My first experiences of academ...

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

I was at home then in the worl...

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

On the whole, the world was fr...

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

Six hours a day I lived under ...

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

The Danish glee: the national ...

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

The war imbued my tin soldiers...

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

The crowd will follow a leader...

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

Georg Brandes 70 quotes

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